The death of 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam has shaken Buffalo's immigrant communities and drawn national scrutiny, raising urgent questions about how federal immigration agencies handle vulnerable people.
The 51-year-old driver was on break at around 1:30 a.m. March 23 when the strangers approached his Toyota Highlander SUV on Second Avenue near East 3rd Street and asked for a lift.
The 42-year-old victim was walking from his car and reporting to work when he was clobbered with an unknown object and then kicked while in the lot at the No. 2 and 5 subway line at the 180th Street Station in Van Nest around 5:45 a.m.
"New Yorkers deserve safe, smooth streets - and under Mayor Mamdani, we're delivering excellence in government to get the job done. We filled more than 8,000 potholes in a single day last Saturday and over 80,000 already this year."
The 'buffer zone' bill, introduced by Council Speaker Julie Menin after a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside Park East Synagogue in November, passed with a vote of 44-5 - a super-majority that will make it immune from a potential veto by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
"I came across one of his 1970s Captain America comics and it immediately grabbed my attention. It was completely impressionistic-nothing looked quite right, but everything looked totally awesome. It's cliché to say, but it really blew my mind."
